COURSE OFFERINGS 2010

• Narrative Theory and Practice for Screenwriters
  Sec. I: Joe Gilford, screenwriter and playwright
  Sec. II: Seth Michael Donsky, filmmaker and freelance journalist
• Creative Writing Seminar: Screenwriting
  Sec. I : Seth Michael Donsky
  Sec. II: Tim Albaugh, screenwriter, Los Angeles
• Film Analysis and Research
  Stephen Prince, professor of communication studies, Virginia Tech
• Topics in Film History: CONTEMP GER FILM
  Klaus Phillips, professor and director of program, Hollins University
  
• Special Topic: Writing the High Concept Screenplay
  Steven Arvanites, screenwriter
• Special Topic: Rewrites
  Tim Albaugh
  
• Video Production
  Amy Gerber-Stroh, Hollins University
• Advanced Screenwriting Tutorial
  Christa Maerker, filmmaker/author, Berlin

Comprehensive list of course offerings »

Summer 2010 Events

Josef Lustig: Aristotle and Screenwriting
Josef Lustig has collaborated on several films with award-winning cinematographer Gary Keith Griffin in the Czech and Slovak Republics, including Come Brother We Go to America, The Poets Stole the Nomad’s Shoes and The Immortal Balladeer of Prague. He holds a PhD from FAMU and Master's degrees from New York University and American University.
June 23, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

An Evening with Peter Riegert
Special Screening: King of the Corner (USA 2004; directed by Peter Riegert; written by Riegert and Gerald Shapiro; starring: Peter Riegert, Isabella Rossellini, Eli Wallach, and Rita Moreno “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. A Comedy.”)
Peter Riegert (Animal House, Crossing Delancey, Local Hero, The Sopranos) will discuss and screen the first feature-length film he directed and personally took from town to town in order to build word of mouth. He also will screen and discuss his Academy Award-nominated short, By Courier.
June 25, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

Another Evening with Peter Riegert
Special Screening: Crossing Delancey (USA 1983; written by Susan Sandler; directed by Joan Micklin Silver)
"A Funny Movie About Getting Serious"
Q&A with Peter Riegert follows the screening.
June 26, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

Joe Gilford at the Taubman
(Co-sponsored with the Graduate Playwriting Program) Joe Gilford will talk informally about his life in the arts and read from his play, FINKS, which is about the black-listing of his parents, actors Jack Gilford and Madeleine Lee’ Gilford.
June 28, 7:30 p.m., Taubman Museum of Art, downtown

Analytical Screening
I Killed You 'Cause I Had To (USA 2008; written and directed by Steven Arvanites; starring Saila Rao and Victor Verhaeghe)
"A one-sided 'love story' gone wrong. Very wrong."
Steven Arvanites will introduce and discuss.
June 30, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

Analytical Screening
Graduate student Suzanne Miller will introduce and discuss.
July 7, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

Marina Shron: Using Genres Creatively: Techniques of Mixing Genre Conventions to Deepen, Enrich, and Enliven the Plot
Marina Shron is an award-winning New York based screenwriter and playwright (originally from Russia), teaches at The New School, and is a Visiting Professor at Montclair State University.
July 9, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

Marilyn Atlas: Creating Memorable, Three-dimensional Characters
An award-winning producer and personal manager, Marilyn R. Atlas is equally at home in the worlds of film, television, and live theater. Among her credits as film producer are Real Women Have Curves for HBO, which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, and A Certain Desire, starring Sam Waterston, as well as Echoes, which won the Gold Award at the 1991 Texas International Film Festival.
July 14, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

An Evening with Scott Kosar
Special Screening: The Machinist (USA 2003; written by Scott Kosar; directed by Brad Anderson; starring Christian Bale)
"How do you wake up from a nightmare if you’re not asleep?"
Q&A with Scott Kosar follows the screening. Scott Kosar wrote the script for this film as a graduate student at UCLA in one of Tim Albaugh’s classes. Since then, he has written the screenplays for the recent remakes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville Horror, and The Crazies. Last year, he was appointed the Hunter/Zakin screenwriting chair at UCLA.
July 16, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

Another Evening with Scott Kosar
Special Screening: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (USA 2003; written by Scott Kosar; directed by Marcus Nispel; starring Jessica Biel)
"Inspired by a true story"
Q&A with Scott Kosar follows the screening.
July 17, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

Hal Ackerman reads from Stein/Stoned
Popular UCLA screenwriting professor and author (and occasional Hollins S&FS professor) reads from his novel. A book signing of the novel, which was published only days before, will follow, courtesy of the Hollins Bookshop.
July 21, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

Analytical Screening of an early movie musical
"One of the best musicals ever made!"—Leonard Maltin
Klaus Phillips will introduce and discuss.
July 28, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

Screening of Student Video Productions
July 30, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

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